Skandapurana 16.151
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Īśvara said: / In the southern part of that very place stands the third Bhairava, / established by Sāvitrī near the Brahmakuṇḍa.
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Worshipping the lord of the gods there, the great-grandfather of the gods, / consuming only wind and taking no food, she gratified Śaṃkara.
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Pleased, the lord Śaṃkara, O goddess, said to that fair-faced lady:
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The man who, having bathed in this kuṇḍa, shall worship my liṅga / on the full moon day according to rule, with perfumes, flowers, and the rest in order,
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I shall give him the auspicious boons he desires, firmly fixed in his mind.
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Even though joined with great sins, he becomes liberated from sins; / with his soul abounding in all desires, he shall become the bull-bannered [Śiva].
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Having spoken thus, O ruler of gods, he then vanished; / and Sāvitrī, having established Śaṃkara, went to the world of Brahmā.
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Thus has been declared briefly the great rise of Sāvitrīśa; / the wise man who hears it becomes liberated from sins.
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Thus ends the one hundred fifty-first chapter, entitled "The Description of the Māhātmya of Sāvitrīśvara-bhairava" in the Māhātmya of Brahmakuṇḍa, in the Māhātmya of Prabhāsa Sacred Field, the first [part] in the seventh Prabhāsakhaṇḍa of the Skanda Mahāpurāṇa containing eighty-one thousand verses.
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